On Monday 12 January 2004 04:21 am, Peter Simko wrote: > Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There > probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive > from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need > to recognize it in order to run LILO so I can start playing around with > my own kernels. you might find more help if you stop 'top posting', as it makes it rather hard to follow what has and has not been said and done. see the BOTTOM for the rest of my comments.
> > E. Hines wrote: > >I see linux partitions only on /dev/hdb (hdb2,hdb3, and hdb4). You have > > no Linux partitions mounting on hdaX at all. You need to figure out > > which partition is the linux partition on hda (as root# fdisk -l /dev/hda > > is your friend) and create manual entries for it: > > > >/dev/hdaX /some_name ext2 rw 0 0 > > > >I have one that looks like this: > > > >/dev/hda9 /backup ext2 defaults 1 2 > > > >On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:39 am, Peter Simko wrote: > >>As requested: > >> > >># /etc/mtab > >>/dev/hdb2 / ext2 rw 0 0 > >>none /proc proc rw 0 0 > >>none /dev devfs rw 0 0 > >>none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 > >>none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 > >>/dev/hdb4 /home ext2 rw 0 0 > >>none /mnt/cdrom supermount > >>ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > >>/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat rw 0 0 > >>/dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat rw 0 0 > >>none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43 0 0 > >>/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0 > >> > >>#/etc/fstab > >># /etc/fstab: static file system information > >># > >># block dev mount point type options dump pass > >>#---------- ----------- ---- ------- ---- ---- > >>/dev/hdb2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > >>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > >>none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > >>/dev/hdb4 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > >>none /mnt/cdrom supermount > >>dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1, 0 0 > >>/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 > >>iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0 > >>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat > >>iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,un > >>hi de 0 0 > >>/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat defaults 0 0 > >>/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_f vfat defaults 0 0 > >>/dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d vfat defaults 0 0 > >>/dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_g vfat defaults 0 0 > >>/dev/hda3 /mnt/win_e vfat defaults 0 0 > >>none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > >>/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > >> > >> > >>I'm in the middle of playing around with my CDRW drive too, so that > >>entry may look weird. > >> > >>Pete > >> > >>et wrote: > >>>On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:17 am, E. Hines wrote: > >>>>On Saturday 10 January 2004 06:01 pm, Peter Simko wrote: > >>>>>The hda is working fine. It's the master on a dual-boot system and has > >>>>>the XP OS and most of my data on it. It shows up in BIOS during boot > >>>>>just fine. The hardware also seems to be detected in dmesg, but no > >>>>>drivers are available. And I just double checked the jumper and it's > >>>>> set to 'master', not cable select. > >>> > >>>post (as root, without the quotes, in a text consol) "cat /etc/mtab" > >>>and > >>>"cat /etc/fstab" well, it is pretty obvious that you don't have any entry for hda in your fstab, but the reason it would not be found by diskdrake is beyond me. are you absolutly positive that you are looking for the correct tab in diskdrake? have you tried ranish? or partition majic just to see what they say about the part table? (don't let PM fix it if you have anything other than ext2 and M$ filesystems).
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